June 5, 2003
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Regime Change
at the New York Times:
With Honors
Departing New York Times executive editor
Howell Raines:
“Remember, when a great story breaks out,
go like hell.”
Returning
executive editor
Joseph Lelyveld
Good Will’s
Oscar
From the date “Good Will Hunting” was released:
Friday, December 5, 1997
“Philosophers ponder the idea of identity: what it is to give something a name on Monday and have it respond to that name on Friday.”
— Bernard Holland, C12, N.Y. Times, 5/20/96
To: The executive editor, The New York Times
Re: The Front Page/His Girl Friday
Match the speaker with the speech —
The Speech— “The son of a bitch stole my…”
The Speaker
Frame of Reference
1.
rosebud
A.
J. Paul Getty
The front page, N.Y. Times, Monday, 12/1/97
2.
clock
B.
Joel Silver
Page 126, The New Yorker, 3/21/94
3.
act
C.
Blanche DuBois
The Elysian Fields
4.
waltz
D.
Bob Geldof
People Weekly 12/8/97
5.
temple
E.
St. Michael
Heaven’s Gate
6.
watch
F.
Susanna Moore
In the Cut (pbk., Dec. ’96) p. 261
7.
line
G.
Joseph Lelyveld
Page A21, The New York Times, 12/1/97
8.
chair
H.
Kylie Minogue
Page 69, People Weekly, 12/8/97
9.
religion
I.
Carol Gilligan
The Garden of Good and Evil
10.
wife
J.
John Travolta
“Michael,” the movie
11.
harp
K.
Shylock
Page 40, N.Y. Review of Books, 12/4/97
12.
Oscar
L.
Stephen King
The Shining (pbk., 1997), pp. 316, 317
Postscript of June 5, 2003:
“…while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time … all forming an instantaneous and transparent organism of events….”
